JavaOne 2007, DayTwo
Originally posted 2007-05-10 09:22:46 I haven’t seen an attendance figure for this year’s JavaOne, but it must approach a gazillion. The logistics of moving this many geeks from place to place would boggle my...
Category: Ablog
I have too much hard drive space!
Originally posted 2008-01-15 05:16:38 By the time people who knew nothing about soldering guns started buying home computers, memory was measured in kilobytes. My first computer, an Atari 400, had 16 kilobytes of RAM,...
No Fluff Just Stuff Tampa — Day One
Originally posted 2010-04-16 20:57:05 No Fluff Just Stuff began in Tampa today. This is my second NFJS conference — my first was in 2008. Five of us from work drove down from Jacksonville, all...
Antivirus
Originally posted 2004-09-30 08:20:33 My Panda antivirus software informs me that my antivirus updates subscription approaches its end, and urges me to renew. In fact, the warning defaults to one visible option: Renew Now....
Eclipse vs NetBeans
Originally posted 2005-07-05 11:31:39 I came across this post today via PlantEclipse: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1546 It’s a long article–too long for me to read fully. The parts I read, however, which represent a significant portion of...
T-Mobile MDA–Impressions after 2 1/2 weeks
Originally posted 2006-03-11 03:40:47 The day the MDA came out, Feb 21, I went to a T-Mobile store and bought one. The next day, a coworker who has a Windows Phone/PDA from yesteryear, couldn’t...
JavaOne 2007, DayThree
Originally posted 2007-05-11 07:14:01 I didn’t say, \”Hello Moto\” to today’s Motorola keynote–to many fires at work to take care of. In fact, 6:00 AM found me standing outside the hotel in my pajamas,...
Why Engineers Need Marketing Folks
Originally posted 2008-02-13 10:57:38 YazSoft has just announced version 5 of Speed Download, its download management product for Mac. They charge $25 for this product. The price may or may not seem reasonable to...
No Fluff Just Stuff Tampa — Day Two
Originally posted 2010-04-18 06:41:23 As Moore’s Law gets repealed and multicore processors demand that we actually learn to write good, safe, non-buggy multi-threaded code (Note: if the business people where you work understand the...
Marketing
Originally posted 2004-10-27 10:00:48 My three-year-old daughter looked me in the eye a few weeks ago and announced, \”Dad, I’m switching to Geico.\” Geico, for those who are unfamiliar, is a car insurance company...